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SMALL technology firms may collapse and inventions be lost overseas because research commercialisation faces such uncertainty and turmoil on several fronts, leading industry figures have warned.
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BUSINESS is booming at a high-security vault in Brisbane as people look for ways to protect their valuables amid the financial crisis.
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The global financial crisis has hit the Indian real estate sector. Property consultant Cushman & Wakefield (C&says the realty sector will be impacted for the next 2-3 years and JonesLangLaSalleMeghraj (JLLM) issued a statement recently saying, "The global economic
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Economic worries prompt Texas Instruments and Sun Microsystems to warn of lower profits.
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Small firms are facing costs that are rising at twice the rate that everyone else is experiencing according to new research which highlights how entrepreneurial companies are struggling.
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Big businesses have little faith that the government is doing enough to tackle the boom in hi-tech crime, a survey suggests.
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Nov 3 - Consumer electronics giant Panasonic is in talks with major shareholders of Sanyo Electric to buy a controlling stake in its smaller Japanese rival, sources told Reuters.
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THE global economic crisis has spread to the local financial services market, with the Bank of Queensland set to freeze some projects.
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Sun Microsystems has started a restructuring that could see up to 6,000 employees lose their jobs as it joins a growing list of technology companies reeling from the crisis.
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Sun Microsystems has started a restructuring that could see up to 6,000 employees lose their jobs as it joins a growing list of technology companies reeling from the crisis.
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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Recognizing the limits of traditional advertising, established technology companies are diving headlong into the sometimes chaotic landscape of social media to promote their products.
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HP shares soared 14 percent Tuesday, leading a tech sector rally, after the No. 1 PC maker announced better-than-expected earnings six days early. However, technology analysts warned that the industry still might be slipping into its worst downturn since the dot-com bust of 2001. "Things are tough out there," says equity analyst Brent Bracelin at Pacific Crest Securities.
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The Chinese government and a technology industry group have launched a program to encourage Canadian companies to expand into one of China's fastest-growing regions.
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BOSTON (Reuters) - International Business Machines Corp, Dell Inc and Intel Corp stand out among technology and consumer-products companies for their policies directed at averting climate change, according to a study released on Thursday.
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American Express takes top place in new privacy survey, though most financial firms fall down the list and tech companies, including Facebook, climb.
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The Treasury secretary also said he had no plans to ask Congress to make the second half of the $700 billion financial rescue fund available before the Bush administration leaves office.
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The results of ISME's final-quarter business survey were disastrous and show a sector in crisis, the small firms' body has said.
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Fourteen tech firms have banded together to form a new industry alliance and cooperatively seek $1 billion to $2 billion in federal funding to create a center for the development and manufacture of domestic lithium ion batteries for transportation applications in the United States.
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Julie Meyer kick-started the First Tuesday tech investment gatherings in London in 1998. Today, she runs her own venture capital firm, Ariadne Capital, which has invested in firms such as Skype and SpinVox.
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Finance officials from the G7 countries have announced a series of measures to try to slow the effects of a financial crisis that is crippling markets around the globe.
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The pirates who hijacked an arms-laden Ukrainian tanker off Somalia issued an ultimatum today and threatened to destroy the ship if no ransom is paid, a spokesman for the bandits said.
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Why are the markets tanking?
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Fuel: Tesco has cut petrol prices by 3p a litre. The oil giant Total and Morrisons followed suit. The average price of unleaded petrol is now 109.2p/l and diesel 120.6p/l. Petrol now costs 9 per cent less than the high of 119.9p on 17 July, with diesel prices 10 per cent cheaper. More cuts may be on the way. As the price of oil sank to a 12-month low, the Petrol Retailers Association said changes took between six and eight weeks to filter down to forecourts.
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Financial leaders from the world's top economies worked Friday on sweeping plans to prop up the tottering banking system, as stocks plunged again in Europe and Asia and careened wildly on Wall Street.
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Lehman's failure turned an American financial meltdown based on the collapse of the subprime mortgage mortgage market into a global crisis.
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The world pays attention to its pirates, not to the continuing famine and warfare.
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Bert van Marwijk, the Netherlands coach, admits his plans for today's World Cup qualifier against Iceland have been thrown into disarray following an injury crisis.
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Experts weigh in on what's happening on Wall Street.
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Leaders of many of New York City’s largest companies gathered at the New York Stock Exchange to discuss how they and government officials should respond to the financial crisis.
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Finance officials from the world's top economic powers endorsed a sweeping plan Friday to stem the worst financial crisis in more than a half-century.
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